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First Build - "Lucifer"
- Thread starter TerribleTim68
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I think between the three channels I still don't have 125 subs, so yeah....Wow, didn't know about the other two!!
You are a YouTube Celebrity!!
Mostly it's just trying to keep everything separated and focused. It was getting too scattered having everything on the one channel. Creating additional channels is easy.
I think between the three channels I still don't have 125 subs, so yeah....
Mostly it's just trying to keep everything separated and focused. It was getting too scattered having everything on the one channel. Creating additional channels is easy.
Believe me, I get it, I have multiple channels, but I'm not sure I have more than 10 subscribers over all three of them!
Although I believe one video has over 2,000 views!!
My YouTube journey has been....interesting. My racing channel once had almost 200 subs, so I created a custom URL. Then I took a couple years off from racing due to budget issues, and now it only has like 38 subs. But I still get to keep my custom URL!Believe me, I get it, I have multiple channels, but I'm not sure I have more than 10 subscribers over all three of them!
Although I believe one video has over 2,000 views!!
The woodworking channel only has 96 subs, so I'm still 4 away from a custom URL.
^^ Thanks TT. I've only had a glimpse at the racing one, but will have a closer look at all of them later (3am here). I wish YT was around when I was rallying/racing as the two guys who fabricated most of the parts were untaught geniuses in what they could do and I would have loved to show that off, even if they would have been embarrassed by it.
Okay, so I wanted to circle back to this one. I guess I mostly just need to use a router more to really start learning how to use a router. What's that old saying? Experience comes from years of making bad decisions...or something like that.
So it seems that I can easily set the depth, turn the router on and then stab it down in there and it will indeed cut on the "bottom" of the bit. What it doesn't seem to like is turning the router on and then plunging it down using the plunge base. Either the plunge mechanism or me being a wimp is just not forcing it down into the wood. It's almost like you have to go in at a very slight angle, so it cuts on the "tip" of the spinning blades rather than actually on the bottom, if that makes sense. But yeah, I did finally get there when cleaning up the pickup cavities. I also think some of it is caused by the fact that I have it in the plunge base rather than the fixed base. The fixed base just scares me because the bit is always just hanging out there all willy-nilly. With the plunge base I can turn the thing on with the bit somewhat "sheathed" and then return to that "sheathed" position before shutting it off. There's not really a time when it's just dangling out there whipping around at 10,000rpms searching for fingers to turn into nubbins or something. I guess it's just my lack of comfort with this tool, and a few other tools I have now (I'm looking at you Mr. Jointer
).
Some bits plunge much better than others. Even among bits labeled as plunge bits I've had some that took more force than I liked to actually plunge cut. And even for a good one I do think there is a technique that involves sort of slipping it in vs forcing it straight down as if it was a drill bit. But speaking of drill bits, that is my preferred way - drill a hole bigger than the router bit to the full depth with a Forster and then start the router in the hole.
When you're cleaning out the nubs on a control cavity center the forstner on one of the holes for the pots, etc.
That seems like something experience would teach me. I'm still on the bad decisions chapter of the manual.
In other news;
I posted my latest pics of my progress on the book of faces, like I typically do. I already had someone ask if I make them for sale.
Umm....dude, I haven't even figured out if it's gonna be playable.
I posted my latest pics of my progress on the book of faces, like I typically do. I already had someone ask if I make them for sale.
Umm....dude, I haven't even figured out if it's gonna be playable.
I have personally found that if my hands are placed against the template securely rather than above the template and I ease the router down that helps keep it secure. If your hands are above the template and you lower it down and it isn't straight it will jump on you.
Pretend you're a software developer and you'll be fine. They've been doing it for decades.
We'll do a playability update in the next patch
It's not a bug it's a feature!
I tend to avoid plunging….. because I don’t have a plunge base… but anyway, I usually hog out the waste with a forstner, then I’m just coming into the wood on the side of the bit. The only “plunge” I’m doing is the bottom of a route, I just “tip” it in taking very shallow cuts.
Yeah, that's basically what I'm doing too, using the bit to come into the side of the wood. I do use the plunge base just so I can start the bit up out of the cavity. It just seems more controllable to me.
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A sane approach. Same reason I swore off router tables…
I have done plunge routing in the past, as long as you have the proper bit, it's not so bad. But routing with a handheld router can be hella dangerous.
For all the reasons you guys mentioned above... since my body is in a weakened state due to illness, the idea is to keep spinning bits of death as far away from my body as is possible. Which is why I'm building a CNC.
This way the router can be doing all that crazy dangerous stuff far away from my sensitive sausage sized monkey fingers!! In fact I can watch YouTube videos while the router is cutting everything out for me... then I just have to sand it and finish it....
For all the reasons you guys mentioned above... since my body is in a weakened state due to illness, the idea is to keep spinning bits of death as far away from my body as is possible. Which is why I'm building a CNC.
This way the router can be doing all that crazy dangerous stuff far away from my sensitive sausage sized monkey fingers!! In fact I can watch YouTube videos while the router is cutting everything out for me... then I just have to sand it and finish it....
So John, what is your YT channel? I'm always looking for some non-influencer to follow!
Rôckhewer
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Ok....B.A.G'werx subscriber here...( 7 of 9?) 
Anyway... I watched you do a swirly on a Warlock in a barrel.
...cool.
...I had an idea.
See...?... you're a YT influencer
Check your comments.
Anyway... I watched you do a swirly on a Warlock in a barrel.
...cool.
...I had an idea.
See...?... you're a YT influencer
Check your comments.
So John, what is your YT channel? I'm always looking for some non-influencer to follow!
Well, I'll share them, but one is just personal stuff, plus a video I shared for a friends business... (the one with the high view count)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs1cwRDpjfeoALQ1-rchUNw
And the other has only a few videos, hopefully more will be added at some point...
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuXes6MCC1rBzA3hKttZPIQ
Thanks for asking!
